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Linux 4.17 Will Allow Some Systems To Lower Their Idle Power Use Up To 10%+

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Michael Larabel
Apr 12, 2018

While last week was the main power management feature updates for the Linux 4.17 kernel merge window that included the new ACPI TAD driver, Rafael Wysocki today sent in a secondary set of feature updates and it includes a rather significant development for Linux power and performance.
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